#paul cret

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Competition design for a monumental display case in a museum by Paul Cret

[nickkahler]

Paul Cret, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., c. 1932

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The Memorial Arch, Valley Forge

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Competition design for the Nebraska State Capitol competition

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Floor plan of the projected Pan American Building, Washington D.C.

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Penn main campus, Philadelphia. This was once my city; now I see it every time through new eyes.

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Paul Cret's design for the Providence War Memorial

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CURATOR’S CHOICE AT THE RODIN MUSEUM: Jennifer Thompson, the Museum’s Gloria and Jack Drosdick Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 and the Rodin Museum, shares her thoughts on this gnarly dude:

“For me, one of the most riveting works is the Colossal Head of Balzac, a more than life-size study of the famous French author’s face. The exaggerated forms of his protruding eyebrows, enormous nose, and helmet-like locks of hair are arresting, especially when combined with the blunt truncation of the figure at the neck. At the Rodin Museum, the sculpture sits on a terrazzo base designed in 1929 by architect Paul Cret, perhaps with the assistance of summer intern Louis Kahn.”

Colossal Head of Balzac, modeled 1898; cast 1925